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04 00 PM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (9)

Ques. Bacterial cloning vectors and bacterial expression vectors are differentiated by the presence of

(A) antibiotic resistance gene cassette

(B) origin of replication

(C) promoter and ribosome-binding site

(D) unique restriction sites

03 00 PM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (8)

Ques. Which of the following activities is NOT possessed by the human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase?

(A) Synthesis of DNA from RNA

(B) Synthesis of DNA from DNA

(C) Degradation of the RNA strand of the RNA: DNA hybrid

(D) Synthesis of mRNA from DNA

02 00 PM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (7)

Ques. An electric circuit with a resistor of constant resistance ‘R’ is maintained at a constant voltage ‘V’. Based on Ohm’s law, if the current ‘I’ through the circuit is doubled, the power ‘P’ dissipated across the resistor is

(A) P/2 (B) P (C) 2P (D) 4P

01 00 PM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (6)

Ques. Which of the following terrestrial biomes has the highest animal diversity?

(A) Tropical forest (B) Savana (C) Chaparral (D) Tundra

11 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (7)

Ques. According to Dunham’s classification, which one of the following limestones is grain-supported and contains mud?

(A) Wackestone (B) Packstone (C) Grainstone (D) Mudstone

10 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (6)

Ques. Which one of the following is a fluorite deposit?

(A) Sonapahar, Meghalaya

(B) Mangampeta, Andhra Pradesh

(C) Belka Pahar, Rajasthan

(D) Dongargaon, Maharashtra

09 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (5)

Ques. Which one of the following minerals has a characteristic pale yellow streak?

(A) Sphalerite (B) Pyrite (C) Hematite (D) Cuprite

08 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (4)

Ques. Which one of the following CORRECTLY describes the footwall block relative to the hanging wall of a planar normal fault?

(A) Lies above the fault plane and relatively moves down

(B) Lies below the fault plane and relatively moves horizontally

(C) Lies above the fault plane and relatively moves up

(D) Lies below the fault plane and relatively moves up

07 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (3)

Ques. Which one of the following does NOT have a polymorph?

(A) Fluorite (B) Pyrite (C) Calcite (D) Diamond

06 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (2)

Ques. Which one of the following is NOT an ultramafic rock? (A) Wehrlite (B) Olivine websterite (C) Harzburgite (D) Anorthosite

05 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Geogology Question (1)

Ques. The density contrast across which one of the following transitions in the Earth is maximum?

(A) Upper crust – lower crust

(B) Upper mantle – lower mantle

(C) Lower mantle – outer core

(D) Outer core – inner core

04 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (7)

Ques. The shortest distance between an object and its real image formed by a thin convex lens of focal length 20 cm is ______ cm. (in integer)

03 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (6)

Ques. Two solid cylinders of the same density are found to have the same moment of inertia about their respective principal axes. The length of the second cylinder is 16 times that of the first cylinder. If the radius of the first cylinder is 4 cm, the radius of the second cylinder is ________ cm. (in integer)

02 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (5)

Ques. For a body-centered cubic (bcc) system, the x-ray diffraction peaks are observed for the following h² + k² + l² value(s) [h, k, and l are Miller indices]

(A) 3

(B) 4

(C) 5

(D) 7

01 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (4)

Ques. Which of these cubic lattice plane pairs is(are) perpendicular to each other?

(A) (100), (010)

(B) (220), (001)

(C) (110), (010)

(D) (112), (220)

12 00 AM IST - 06 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (3)

Ques. For a two-slit Fraunhofer diffraction, each slit is 0.1 mm wide, and separation between the two slits is 0.8 mm. The total number of interference minima between the first diffraction minima on both sides of the central maxima is

a. 16

b. 18 

c. 8

d. 9

11 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (2)

Ques. One end of a long chain is lifted vertically from flat ground to a height H with constant speed v by a force of magnitude F. Assume that the length of the chain is greater than H and that it has a uniform mass per unit length p. The magnitude of the force F at height H is (g is the acceleration due to gravity)

(A) p(gH + v²)

(B) p(gH + 2v²)

(C) p(2gH + v²)

(D) p/2(gH+v²)

10 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Physics Question (1)

Ques. For a non-relativistic free particle, the ratio of phase velocity to group velocity is

(A) 2 (B) 1 2 (C) 1 (D) 1 4

09 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematics Question (2)

Ques. The number of surjective (onto) group homomorphisms from ?4 to ℤ6 is equal to ________________.

08 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematics Question (1)

Ques. Let ? be an abelian group of order 35. Let ? denote the number of elements of order 5 in ?, and let ? denote the number of elements of order 7 in ?. Then, the value of ? + ? is equal to ______________.

07 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematical Statistics Question (5)

Ques. Suppose (X, Y) has the N₂ (3, 0, 4, 1, 0.5) distribution. Then 4 Cov(X +Y, Y³) is equal to _________ (answer in integer)

06 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematical Statistics Question (4)

Ques. Consider a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials with success probability p= 1/7. Then the expected number of trials required to get two consecutive successes for the first time is equal to (answer in integer)

05 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematical Statistics Question (3)

Ques. A drawer contains 5 pairs of shoes of different sizes. Assume that all 10 shoes are distinguishable. A person selects 5 shoes from the drawer at random. Then the probability that there are exactly 2 complete pairs of shoes among these 5 shoes is equal to ____________ (round off to 2 decimal places)

04 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematical Statistics Question (2)

Ques. A fair die is thrown three times independently. The probability that 4 is the maximum value that appears among these throws is equal to

a. 8/27

b. 1/216

c. 37/216

d. 1/2

03 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Mathematical Statistics Question (1)

Ques. Let f:R->R be given by f(x) = x + π cos x. Then the number of solutions of the equation f(x) =0 is:

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

02 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Chemistry Question (5)

Ques. Wilkinson's catalyst contains

(A) ruthenium(1) in square planar geometry

(B) ruthenium(I) in tetrahedral geometry

(C) rhodium(I) in square planar geometry

(D) rhodium(I) in tetrahedral geometry

01 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Chemistry Question (4)

Ques. The biomolecule that does NOT contain iron is CY

(A) cytochromes (B) hemocyanin (C) hydrogenases (D) hemerythrin

12 00 PM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Chemistry Question (3)

Ques. The type of carboxypeptidase metalloenzyme and the metal ion present in it, respectively, are CY

(A) hydrolase and Zn(II)

(B) isomerase and Zn(II)

(C) hydrolase and Cu(II)

(D) isomerase and Cu(II)

11 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Chemistry Question (2)

Ques. The product formed when (R)-2-bromopropionic acid is treated with a low concentration of hydroxide ion is

(A) predominantly of the S configuration

(B) predominantly of R configuration

(C) a racemic mixture (

D) achiral

10 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Chemistry Question (1)

Ques. Sulfide ores are concentrated by

(A) froth floatation (B) smelting (C) roasting (D) reduction

09 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Economics Question (3)

Ques. Which one of the following is distinct from the others?

a. Histogram

b. Pictogram

c. Ogive

d. Frequency Polygon

08 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Economics Question (2)

Ques. The inflation targeting policy adopted by the Reserve Bank of India in 2025 prescribed the targeted inflation to vary betweeen _____ percent.

a. 2-6

b. 2-7

c. 3-8

d. 3-7

07 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Economics Question (1)

Ques. For a positively skewed frequency distribution, _______. 

a. Mean> Median> Mode

b. Mean< Median< Mode

c. Mode> Mean> Median

d. Median> Mode> Mean

06 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (5)

Ques. The correct order of electronegativity of the given elements is

(A) B > C > N > O > F

(B) F > O > N > C > B

(C) F > N > O > C > B

(D) O > F > N > C > B

05 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (4)

Ques. What is the ploidy level of a sporophyte in angiosperms?

(A) n (B) 2n (C) 3n (D) 4n

04 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (3)

Ques. Which one of the following hormones is produced by the adrenal gland?

(A) Thyroxine (B) Cortisol (C) Insulin (D) Melatonin

03 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (2)

Ques. After how many cycles of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the amplified product of the required length is generated for the first time from a chromosomal DNA template?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5

03 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Previous Year's Biotechnology Question (1)

Ques. The porphyrin ring (tetrapyrrole structure) is NOT found in functional

(A) chlorophyll

(B) hemoglobin

(C) hemocyanin

(D) leghemoglobin

02 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Negative Marking

• No marks will be deducted for the unattempted questions
• For 1 marked question, the candidates will get a deduction of 1/3 marks for the incorrect answers
• No negative and no partial marking is there for Section B questions
• No negative marking is there for Section B questions

01 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Biotechnology Paper Pattern

12 00 AM IST - 05 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Should I carry rough copy from home?

Candidates do not need to carry any rough sheet to the exam centre on their own. The candidates will get a rough sheet from the exam centre on the examination day.

11 00 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: What if discrepancy is found?

After downloading the IIT JAM 2026 admit card, the candidates should check whether the details mentioned in it are correct or not. If any discrepancy or error is found, then they should contact the concerned authority before appearing for the exam. 

10 00 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Instructions related to Scribble

• Candidates will be given scribble pads
• Candidates should write their names and registration numbers on a scribble pad
• After ending the exam, the candidates should return the scribble pad to he invigilator

09 00 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Things Not to Carry

• Do not carry any scientific calculator inside the exam hall. The candidates will get a "virtual scientific calculator" on the computer screen
• Do not carry a mobile phone, any smart watch, a pager, or written paper or any electronic gadgets to the exam centre

08 40 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Documents to Carry

• IIT JAM admit card 2026
• Valid photo ID proof, such as Voter ID, Aadhaar Card, PAN Card or student ID

08 20 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Steps to Retrieve Password?

If the candidates forget the password to download the IIT JAM admit card, then they can retrieve it by referring to the following steps:

• Visit the JOAPS Portal
• A login window will appear, where the candidates should select the "Forget Enrollment ID or password" button
• Candidates should choose either "by requesting an OTP" or "by resetting password."

08 00 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

Details Mentioned on IIT JAM Admit Card 2026

• Name of the candidates
• Test paper code
• Duration of the IIT JAM exam
• Exam time
• Exam centre code and venue details
• Name of the candidates
• Registration number
• Signature andd photograph of the candidates

07 40 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

Can I receive IIT JAM Admit Card 2026 at my home?

No, the mode of downloading or receiving the IIT JAM admit card 2026 is online only. The candidates will not receive the IIT JAM admit card at their postal addresses or registered email addresses. 

07 20 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Steps to Download

• Go to the official website of IIT Bombay
• Go to the JOAPS portal
• Log in using the login credentials
• Click on the submit button
• IIT JAM 2026 admit card will be displayed on the screen
• Download it and take a printout of it

07 00 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Exam Date

As per the schedule, the IIT JAM 2026 exam will be held on February 15, 2026. Candidates should carry the IIT JAM admit card along with the ID proof to the exam centre on examination day. 

06 40 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Release Time

06 20 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026: Required Credentials

• Email ID/ enrollment ID
• Password

06 00 PM IST - 04 Jan'26

IIT JAM Admit Card 2026 Release Date

IIT Bombay will release the IIT JAM admit card 2026 on January 5, 2026, at the JOAPS portal for all the successfully registered candidates. To download the admit card, the candidates should enter their login credentials.